Jun 16, 2013

This banana bread is moist and delicious, made with white whole wheat flour, sweet roasted strawberries and ripe bananas, with just a smidgen of butter, so you can enjoy a slice without the guilt!

I had some bananas that were getting brown and I was really in the mood for banana bread, so I combined the two for a delicious quick bread. You can turn these into muffins if you prefer. In the past I attempted this recipe, but the strawberries released too much liquid which made the bread a little too moist. Roasting the strawberries is the perfect solution, most of the liquid dries out from roasting so you get the flavor of the strawberries in every bite.

Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly spray a loaf pan with baking spray. Place the strawberries on a baking sheet and roast for 25 minutes, remove and set aside.

In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt with a wire whisk. Set aside.

In a large bowl cream butter and sugar with an electric mixer. Add egg whites, bananas, apple sauce and vanilla, and beat at medium speed until thick. Scrape down sides of the bowl.

Add flour mixture and blend at low speed until combined, do not over mix. Fold in strawberries and pour batter into the prepared loaf pans; bake in the center rack for about 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Let the pan cool at least 20 minutes, bread should be room temperature before slicing.

Just pulled this out of the oven! Had some too-soft bananas and a bucket full of ripe strawberries so this recipe came at a good time. I used whole wheat flour and it worked fine. I ended up pulling mine out at around 40 minutes because the toothpick came out clean and it was browning a bit. Great recipe!

As I don't have applesauce, I may use my regular banana bread recipe and add the roasted strawberries. Will have to see. Never had a banana bread with strawberries before, but sounds delicious in concept.

I just made this last night and it was amazing!!!! I actually ended up finding unsweetened applesauce in the back of the pantry. It's definitely going to be a keeper. And I'm making your shrimp with pasta in tomato sauce tonight for dinner. I LOVE your recipes!!!

Can't wait to try this. I agree with Marla M, I'm going to try as muffins. Don't have all the ingredients right now but will let all know how they come out and what my times were once I have made. Thanks Gina!!

Just pulled these out of the oven two seconds ago, and they look and smell amazing :) Made jumbo muffins instead of a bread loaf. Baking time was exactly 32 minutes for me after pre-heating the oven. Thanks for a great recipe!

seriously I have just started baking this recipe and the strawberries smell amazing!!! Can't wait to taste it. Actually I can't wait to taste the strawberries cooled from the oven! Thanks for another great recipe!

I followed the recipe as written but put into muffin tins. There was about 4 C batter so I scooped 1/4 C into each sprayed and lightly floured tin. Baked for 18 mins and they were prefect! Thanks SO much for all of the amazing recipes. Your blog has been such a positive thing in my life this year.

This just came out of the oven 30 mins ago. The strawberries smelled wonderful roasting. This tasted yummy! Thank you for sharing your recipes!! I have made a few of your recipes and they don't disappoint!!

Finally got around to trying this recipe. It is baking now and making the whole house smell wonderful!

Gina, thanks for just being so darn awesome! Your recipes are making the biggest difference in my life right now. Finally feel like I am on the right track to becoming a healthier me and that I can still enjoy food!

Delish! I added 1/4-cup chopped pecans and baked in standard size muffin tin (made 10 muffins). I baked for approx. 20-22 minutes. My husband and I loved them! We enjoyed them for breakfast with a smear of low-fat cream cheese--so good. Gina, thanks for all the great recipes . . . can't wait for your cookbook.

I'll never, ever learn my lesson. I always peruse your blog when I'm at work and inevitably I find something I want to go straight home and make. This though, I can't wait until home time. I've already texted my SO and told him to go pick up strawberries. Pronto! Killing me...

OMG. Found your blog last night. Bookmarked (not joking)12 recipes and made this one for my daycare provider's birthday. She texted 15 minutes after I dropped my twins off asking for the recipe. Ended up using a muffin pan and they came out perfectly--my 2.5 year olds loved them. Making another batch for my own family tonight!

THIS BREAD IS SO GOOD! i have to get myself to stop eating so much of it!! I made mine with whole wheat flour and it's great! I love the idea of roasting the strawberries. I wanna make chocolate cupcakes now and put roasted strawberries in them along with some white chocolate chips.

So delicious! I made it this morning and first off it made my house smell so yummy. And second, my sister in law, niece, and my daughter loved it too. They said it was delicious. Which makes me happy knowing that it's also healthy. Thank you so much for your amazing recipes. I've made at least one thing a day from your site since I found it 2 months ago.

Made this this morning and had 2 slices so far with some peanut butter...it is sooo AMAZING! Couldn't fine white whole wheat flour so just used regular whole wheat flour...also forgot to get the unsweetened applesauce but had some of the mini Mott's applesauce cups sugar free healthy harvest summer strawberry so I used that instead. I will definitely be making more later in the week!

Gina, how on Earth do you get your bread so light and fluffy? I've bought new baking soda and I'm always careful not to overmix, but mine comes out a lot flatter and denser. Anyone else have this issue? What's your secret?

I made some slight modifications: substituted in cake flour that I've been wanting to finish up and blueberries instead of strawberries (my local store was completely out!) It's so light and moist, everyone in my office is raving about it!

Just made this with a few modifications. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough whole wheat flour so I had to use white flour. I was also out of applesauce so I used light sour cream instead. And we added chocolate chips on the top of one (we only have small bread pans so I was able to make three loaves). Oh and in using the small pans, it only took 25 minutes.This bread was fantastic! Thanks for the great recipe! Will definitely make again!

This has been brilliant every time I've made it (probably half a dozen times at least now). I've used strawberries, blueberries, cherries, and today, I'm trying peaches. I like the texture best if I sub nonfat Greek yogurt (plain or vanilla, whatever's on hand) for the butter, which skims off even more fat and calories.

Thank you so much for this recipe - it has become a staple treat at our house. So much so that it's even worth turning the oven on when it's 102 outside, like today!

This came out TERRIBLE for me! Not moist, but SOGGY. I even baked it longer than recommended, let it air for a day, then put it back in the oven at 250 for over an hour now. No matter what I do, it's way too moist. A pity, as I was looking forward to this. I can't imagine what went wrong (shouldn't be an altitude issue, I live in Florida). :( That said, it did taste amazing, we just can't eat it because it's basically sopping.

Mine really didn't rise either :( It's pretty dense and not light and fluffy at all. It still tastes pretty good! but there's something fairly unsatisfying about such a tiny piece of banana bread Not sure what I did wrong - though I will say I was having trouble creaming the butter with the amount of sugar, it really wasn't going much past a kind of wet sand consistency. Maybe I went wrong there :(

I'm not much of a baker, but this recipe came out perfectly for me. It was delicious and moist, and the banana taste wasn't overpowering. I'm not a fan of bananas in general, but I decided to give it a try, and I'm glad I did. It was wonderful...and the strawberries perfectly complemented the recipe. This will definitely be added to my recipe faves!

I have a loaf in the oven right now started it at 5am, but well worth it. I made a double batch this past weekend my husband and kids ate all of it. I got one slice. So I'm hiding some this time. Now I need more bananas!

I used Whole Pastry Flour and 2 cups of frozen strawberries. Just to experiment, I cut the brown sugar to 1/4 cups and added some of the natural strawberry juice that came out from roasting. Also added 1/4 cups (will add 1/2 C next time) of shredded coconut (organic, unsweetened). Mine came out very moist and a bit more dense than fluffy and the flavor was great! Will definitely make this again and will try adding Chia seeds next time.

I made today as "cupcakes" they made 15-I baked at 350 degrees for 22 minutes-they were WONDERFUL-each cupcake is same ww point I think??? SO good-Gina you need your own show-not kidding-your own SHOW ASAP:) thank you for sharing....

*** FANTASTIC!! *** A+++!!! Made this late yesterday and the whole loaf was gone by the next morning. (Probably should not admit that there are only 2 of us). :-O Made 2 small substitutions (because that's what I had on-hand): Used 1/2 cup of Splenda Brown Sugar Blend instead of light brown sugar and 2 eggs instead of egg whites. Can't wait to experiment with some other roasted fruit!!

Purchased 3 lbs of strawberries today so thought id check out this bread since its been on my pinterest board for a while now. it turned out super good, really moist and stuff, but pretty dense (didn't really rise a ton) but thats OK i still loved the taste. thanks for the recipe.

I love this, it's really tasty :-)I would just like to know what's the serving size in grams? I think my loaf pan is different size from the one used in this recipe, unless I cut it in 16 paper thin slices.

Can you say "BEST LOAF EVER?"!!!!!!!!! I did half whole wheat & half white flour. I also covered it with foil after 40 min since it was starting to look a little too brown and it was still a little raw.Thank you and thank you AGAIN!